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Cut price latrine on design award shortlist
Posted by SciDev.Net: Kounila Keo on September 1st, 2011
SciDev.Net: A toilet kit and a self-cleaning water filter are among the innovations shortlisted for a major award that recognises the importance of design in improving lives.
The Easy Latrine and Tulip Siphon Water Filter, both being rolled out in Cambodia, have reached the final round of the Denmark-based INDEX awards which have a top prize of EUR500,000 (US$711,000), and will be awarded later today.
The US$35 Easy Latrine is an affordable, all-in-one toilet kit aimed at the rural poor in Cambodia, where...